Positive Cases Among Kern Residents: 305,161
Deaths: 2,605
Recovered and Presumed Recovered Residents: 297,619
Percentage of all cases that are unvaccinated: 71.37
Percentage of all hospitalizations that are unvaccinated: 83.16
Updated: 1/19/23
Partly cloudy skies during the morning hours will give way to occasional showers in the afternoon. High 56F. Winds NNE at 5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain 50%..
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Updated: January 29, 2023 @ 1:48 am
“We gather here today, welcoming the presence of promise,” said Bakersfield Mayor Karen Goh to applause among the estimated 1,000 people at the event billed as the second largest prayer breakfast in the country.
If there was one thing Kevin McCarthy looked to remind constituents Thursday, it's that before he became speaker of the House, he was a Driller. His message was well-received by those who were invited.
After spending the majority of his life in prison, Cedric Struggs dreams of walking down Bakersfield’s grocery store aisles filled with every imaginable product wrapped in tempting packaging designed to grab customers’ attention.
Business is suddenly jumping at Tejon Ranch Commerce Center after years of being largely overlooked in a most conspicuous location. A variety of recent transactions has accelerated development — and boosted revenue — at one of Kern's most prominent publicly traded companies.
Several hundred people gathered at the Martin Luther King Jr. Day Community Awards Breakfast held Monday morning at the MLK Community Center in east Bakersfield.
Most backyard fruit growers know there's more to yielding a bumper crop of ripe peaches, plums, nectarines or cherries than just planting a young tree and letting nature take its course.
Put on by the Probation Auxiliary County of Kern and the Kern County Probation Department, the annual Fog Run on Saturday was to benefit educational scholarships and its Helping Hands program.
Under cloudy skies, volunteers spanned out from the corner of Ferguson Street and North Chester Avenue on Saturday to help clean up the community.
The losses would be almost unthinkable if fire really did break out inside Beale Memorial Library’s local history room and a smaller area within it known as “the vault.”
Six girls basketball teams had the chance to make their holidays just a little happier in Arvin Friday. Two Kern County squads seized the opportunity.
More than 200 people turned out in 51 degree weather Sunday morning for the annual Polar Bear Plunge at McMurtrey Aquatic Center. A sign posted near the pool warned participants they could expect 59 degree water at the bottom of the slide. Undeterred, brave revelers stood in a long line for …
The hemp craze that seized the imagination of Kern’s ag industry four years ago may have worn off, but a local transplant from New York is making another, equally ambitious run at it from a whole different angle.
A small coalition of local dog advocates calling themselves Bakersfield Strays distributes more than 2,500 pounds per month of donated dog food across an 80-mile radius around Bakersfield, spending their own money on gasoline and other supplies. But it’s getting harder finding somewhere to h…
Southeast Bakersfield’s annual Kwanzaa celebration returned Thursday to the Martin Luther King Jr. Community Center with dancing, drumming, storytelling and other cultural activities recognizing African cultural principles.
Congregants at First Presbyterian Church of Bakersfield came in from the cold late Saturday afternoon for the annual Christmas Eve Celebration Service. It included a children’s choir, a book reading for young ones and a bright candlelight moment toward the end of the event. Afterward, friend…
Local nonprofits rallied on Thursday, the eve of the holiday weekend, to pack and send out several hundred meals to veterans and disadvantaged seniors who unfortunately may not have anyone to celebrate with.
Not even biting wind and chill air could blow away smiles and laughs of hundreds queued up Monday outside Valley Baptist Church.
For a dose of strong inspiration, look no further than Wednesday’s commencement ceremony for Cal State Bakersfield graduates.
Rainbow bears. Big brown teddy bears. Care Bears. Dinosaurs. A moose. Even a turtle — but this certainly wasn’t the place to be slow. This was Beach Park on Sunday morning, where hundreds of men and women lined up on Harleys and more for the 39th annual Bakersfield Toy Run and Food Drive.
Pets dressed up for Christmas on Friday, ready for a parade from Village Pet Market to the Christmas tree at Town & Country Village Shopping Center in southwest Bakersfield.
Brundage Lane Navigation Center guests enjoy a hearty Thanksgiving dinner.
Those 55 years and older make up the Silver Streakers softball organization that puts together a tournament to raise money to buy children’s toys during the holiday season. Target’s cash register broke down Monday before it could tally the roughly $3,500 raised and spent by Silver Streakers.
The Kern County and Bakersfield fire departments demonstrated Tuesday how the holidays can quickly turn upside down with their annual turkey frying demonstration.
Thanks to Bakersfield-ARC, six Albertsons stores in Bakersfield, countless Albertsons customers, other participating businesses and an army of volunteers, the Valley Feeding Project expects to deliver enough food to make some 600 Thanksgiving dinners for veterans and seniors living in Kern.
Children celebrated the beauty of movement and dance Wednesday at the Children’s Dance Education and Outreach Event at the Historic Bakersfield Fox Theater.
As it does every year about this time, a field of gold and green shines in the autumn sun just off Highway 58 along General Beale Road.
Positive Cases Among Kern Residents: 305,161
Deaths: 2,605
Recovered and Presumed Recovered Residents: 297,619
Percentage of all cases that are unvaccinated: 71.37
Percentage of all hospitalizations that are unvaccinated: 83.16
Updated: 1/19/23
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